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A good illustration of why it is important to maintain a military devoid of political bias is the Winnipeg general strike. The Canadian Army was asked to give aid to the Civil Power and the officers were concerned that the OR's might go over to the side of the rioters. Members of the Canadian Forces swear their oath to the Queen of Canada, not to any politician. The CAF is not a democratic institution. It could not function if it was.

Agreed, and the right to own and bear arms has been affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Lefty laws trying to disenfranchise Americans of their constitutional rights have been struck down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller

Perhaps as pushback against xenophobic and anti-Muslim attitudes. In the past year, in my relatively high-Muslim area, I have maybe seen a dozen women in burkas. Perhaps the actual numbers of women wearing the burka are so few that its irrelevant and nothing to worry about. Kind of similar to how hate crimes against Jews and Muslims are so few and insignificant that they're irrelevant and nothing to worry about.

It may have been about militias, but it is also about the right to bear arms. It says that! the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Though the specific purpose for which the 2nd amendment was intended for at the time however, does not make it obsolete today. The possibility of the same kind of threat is real - we see it happen in other countries. Furthermore, defense does not necessarily have to mean against another human. What about wild animals? A bear that entered your property, or your house? Well....your phrase is rather interesting: So inorder to have a gun culture, GUN CULTURE. That pertains to all firearms......whether they're high-powered automatic or simple hunting rifles, whether regulated or not. So....it's not a stupid idea at all. There are those who want to see all firearms banned. people cling to this amendment as the way the founders intended it. People cling to that amendment because it is a right. The right to own, keep and bear arms. To voluntarily give up a right, is what would be a stupid idea. It doesn't happen overnight - especially in a democratic country like the USA, and especially when there is opposition to contend with. The 2nd amendment does not state that it's mandatory to bear arms. It simply just gives you the right to do so, should you want to. That should be good news to lefties that there are less people buying guns. Of course, those numbers of gun buyers most likely reflect the numbers of law-abiding citizens......but not criminals. From what I hear, cops are even outgunned by some criminals.

Kind of reminds me of the Kurds.....but they don't count do they.....

No, but I don't attack it either do I? I think that's what must be confusing you. It's a symptom of that chronic tendency your ilk has to conflate things and jerk to conclusions.

Agreed...it is irrelevant. The threat of involuntary confinement is no justification or rationalization for another layer of oppression in public. Dysfunctional behaviour is not improved by yet more dysfunctional behaviour.

Sure, let's ban this symbol of oppression; for the women who wear it by choice, they can decide not to wear it, no problem. Or if they decide.to stay home, well I might think that's dumb ... but their choice. But what are you going to do about the women whose family says ... No burka, no leaving the house? One of the most effective methods an abuser has to control his victim is to isolate her. Isolating her keeps her from seeking help and this would be even more effective for a woman who is not familiar with Canadian culture. With a burka ban, the woman most in need of exposure to Canadian culture, its freedoms and its resources are denied that if they can't leave their house. People who think banning the burka is helping oppressed women fail to realize they are simply adding another layer of oppression. Banning the burka will just make the most oppressed women invisible and quite literally trapped at home. But I suppose banning a "symbol" of oppression is easy and when all the burkas disappear, along with the women who wear them, people can tell themselves they've accomplished something.

You're maintaining that my saying this; We'd only barely granted women the right to vote ourselves before we were running around the world overthrowing democracies. Is LITERALLY the same as my saying this So, first and second world wars was us running around overthrowing democracies? I might as well be talking to two year old FFS. Ok have it your way. I'll stop assuming I'm talking to someone who's only pretending to be stupid and spell it out for you. First of all women in the US and other western democracies didn't get to vote until after the 1st WW. Clearly the period after the 1st and 2nd WW's and the present is a lot closer to and more relevant to what's at issue. My bad for assuming that should be obvious in a thread about Islam. So like I said, much the west was barely out of the twilight ages of dictatorships itself before it was starting new ones and passing judgements on the democratic aspirations of other human beings around the planet. This of course has left a legacy of terrible consequences...abject stupidity apparently being one of them.

He should have been immediately deported. In fact, because of the safe third party rule he should never have been accepted as a refugee in the first place. Certainly the moment he was identified as having radical views he should have been deported.